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Reducing High-Speed Rail Costs by Combined Double-Single Tracks

• The maximum relative travel time is 1.00 for the High speed services and 1.11 for the
conventional services.
• It includes 116 daily services, 60 for passengers and 56 freight services. The resulting
timetable is shown in Figure 15.
• The construction cost of the adopted solution amounts to 914.03 million euros, saving 390.8 million
euros (30%) with respect to a double-track solution, which would cost 1,304.8 million euros.
• Considering a service life of 40 years and meeting the benefits regarding the social welfare,
the investment becomes profitable from the 10th year in operation.

Figure 15. Optimized timetable and selected double- (yellow shade) and single-track segments. Vitoria-Zaragoza Case

Figure 16. Final layout of the proposed line showing the single- and double-track segments. Vitoria-Zaragoza Case

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